A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes & Life
Hip-Hop music fans across the globe silently smile to one's self when someone utters the words “A Tribe Called Quest”.
This group has become "Hip Hop music royalty" even to many outside the World of Hip Hop music.
They are as revered as the Notorious Big, 2 Pac, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Public Enemy, or Jay Z within the world of Hip Hop culture.
Across the globe, they are universally loved, and even more so wherever they have toured in the past. A Tribe Called Quest was formed in the middle 1980s, and yet they had to wait a few years before their brand of Hip Hop music began to make a note to the American Hip Hop fan.
Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammed are recognized as the people that made the group legendary. However, there was a fourth member at the beginning of the creation of the group that was Jarobi White.
However, he left out of the group soon after the group’s first album was put out.
A Tribe Called Quest was also soon to join up with a collective known as the Native Tongues which featured other notable HipHop groups or acts of the time such as Jungle Brothers, Da la Soul, Monie Love, Black Sheep, and Chi-Ahi.
The Native Tongues was a collection of New York-based collective of like-minded hip hop artists who would help bring open-minded lyricism that addressed a range of topics, from spirituality to modern living, race, sex, or just having fun.
With the use of an eclectic selection of samples that would take on an increasingly jazzy sound, which they helped pioneer a new brand of hip-hop music called Conscious hip hop, alternative hip-hop, or Jazz rap.
Helped along the way by DJ Red Alert, and the success of the Jungle Brothers. This collaboration would pave the way for De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest to come together.
These three groups would form the core of the crew and continue the spirit of Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.
By 1989 they had been joined by Queen Latifah and the UK's Monie Love, and soon by the Black Sheep & Chi-Ali.
Collectively, the members of the Native Tongues had a huge effect on the style and trends of hip-hop during its most important period, the golden age of Hip Hop music from the late 1980s–the early 1990s.
A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul's albums of this time are considered among the best and most important in the hip-hop genre.
The song called "Scenario" was the final track on the Tribe Called Quest album The Low-End Theory and featured the fledging Leaders of the New School—Dinco D, Busta Rhymes, and Charlie Brown.
This track simultaneously introduced and legitimized the concept of a new school in hip-hop music, and is arguably the most notable and significant single song of the era.
Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective.
Their innovative fusing of hip-hop and jazz has had a lasting impact on hip-hop music, helping to expand the art of hip-hop production.
Many of their songs, such as "Bonita Applebum", "Can I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo", "Scenario", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electric Relaxation" are regarded as classics.
They released five albums between 1990 and 1998.
The first three LPs were highly acclaimed, but the group disbanded after 1998.
Here are those albums released that were released between 1990 and 1998
Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - 1990
The Low-End Theory - 1991
Midnight Marauders - 1993
In 2006, the group reunited and toured the U.S., and planned to release an album after some work in the studio. The group is regarded as iconic pioneers of alternative hip-hop music, having helped to pave the way for innovative hip-hop artists.
Now we have: “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest the Movie”.
This is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about this influential and groundbreaking hip-hop group from New York City.
A Tribe Called Quest has released five gold and platinum-selling albums within eight years.
A Tribe Called Quest was one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history and is regarded as the iconic pioneer of hip hop.
The band’s sudden break-up in 1998 shocked everyone and saddened the fans.
Rapaport, a hard-core fan of the group himself sets out on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008 when the group reunited to perform sold-out concerts across the country, almost ten years after the release of their last album, The Love Movement.,
As he travels with the band members (Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White), Rapaport captures the story of how their relationship has become; and how their personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to be a threat to their creative cohesion.
With mounting tensions erupting in the background of this tour, the viewer gets a fly-on-the-wall look at their journey and contributions as a band and what currently is at stake for the group.
Radio legend DJ Red Alert, and Native Tongues members like Monie Love, The Jungle Brothers, Busta Rhymes, and De La Soul speak about the early days of hip hop when young artists discovered the freedom of artistic expression while rejecting the confines of gangster rap and negative stereotypes.
In addition to this, the film includes interviews from the Beastie Boys, Pharrell Williams, Mos Def, Santigold, Monie Love, Pete Rock, Large Professor, De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers, and Common, all of whom attribute some combination of love, respect, and inspiration drawn from the legacy of A Tribe Called Quest.
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